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1) [line 1] YA'ASEH LO SEGULAH - they should set up an investment for him, as the Gemara below explains, either a Sefer Torah or a fruit-bearing date-palm
2a) [line 3] YA'ASEH K'FEIRUSHAN - he should do as they explicitly stated 3) [line 4] DEVIS'HU D'RABAH BAR BAR CHANAH - the wife of Rabah bar bar Chanah
4) [line 4] KI KA SHACHVAH - when she was dying
6a) [line 6] IY MEHEIMNA LACH - if she is trustworthy to you (that she did
not steal them from you) 7) [line 13] AFILU CHALKU - (lit. even if they (a father and son) separated [from one another]) even if a son has stopped being supported by his father [they are not able to attain a Chazakah on each other's lands, since the presence of one on the lands of the other is not likely to bring about the protest of the other] 8) [line 16] ISHTA'I LI RAV CHIYA - Rav Chiya said to me 9) [line 17] HURMIZ ARDESHIR - Weh-Ardashir or Ardjir, formerly Seleucia, ancient city of Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Seleucia was founded by King Seleucus I, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, sometime after 311 BCE, on the west bank of the Tigris River northeast of Babylon, which was despoiled to supply materials for its construction. Controlling the navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as well as the commerce of Mesopotamia, the city rapidly rose to wealth and splendor, becoming a famous center of Hellenistic civilization. When in the 2nd century BCE Mesopotamia came under the rule of Parthia, Seleucia continued as a great commercial city and in the 1st century CE had a population of 600,000. The city was partly burned by the Roman emperor Trajan in 116 CE, and in 164 CE it was completely destroyed by the Roman general Avidius Cassius in his campaign against the Parthians. The destruction of Seleucia marked the end of Hellenistic civilization in Mesopotamia. Ardashir I, king of the New Persian Empire (224-241 CE) and founder of the Sassanid Dynasty, built Weh-Ardashir on the ruins of Seleucia.
10a) [line 22] ONOS - deeds of purchase (lit. "strengths," for they give
legal strength to the bearer of these documents) 11) [line 25] ABA - Rav. Rav is called Aba (a) as a title of authority, since Rav was older than Shmuel (RASHI to Yevamos 57b); (b) because that was his name (RASHBAM, ARUCH, Erech Abaye, cited by TOSFOS to Chulin 38a DH Itztrich) 12) [line 26] KELUM TA'ANINAN LEHU L'YASMEI MIDI D'LO TA'AN LEHU AVUHON?! - Do we (Beis Din) make a claim for them (the orphans) using a claim that their father could not use? (That is, Rav rules that while he was alive, their father needed to bring proof that the money specified by the documents belonged to him. What changed after his death such that the brothers of their father must now prove that the money did not belong to their father?) 13) [line 27] ZUGA D'SARBELA - (a) *scissors* used for cutting wool (RASHBAM); (b) according to the Girsa *ZAVA* D'SARBELA - *a pair* of woolen cloaks (ARUCH)
14) [line 27] SAFRA D'AGADTA - a book of Agadah (Midrashim)
16) [line 4] EIN CHALUKIN B'ISASAN - where they do not divide [anything among themselves, including] the dough [that is used to make the bread that they eat] (and as such, we suspect that any money that he used to purchase land and to give out loans belongs to the estate and should be shared equally among the heirs, unless he brings proof that it belonged to him) 17) [line 5] ME'ISASO KIMETZ - he scrimped from his dough [enough to eventually sell and put aside money for himself]
18) [line 6] KIYUM HA'SHTAR (KIYUM SHETAROS)
19) [line 21] ATU KOL HANEI D'AMRINAN, LAV BENEI CHAZAKAH NINHU?! - Is this to say that the cases that follow in the Mishnah (Daf 42a), e.g. a person who gives a gift or brothers who divide their father's estate, cannot accomplish a Kinyan through a Chazakah?!
20a) [line 23] CHAZAKAH SHE'YESH IMAH TA'ANAH - [a person who is in the
process of making] a Chezkas Shalosh Shanim [on a piece of land] while a
Me'ar'er protests his claim 21) [line 26] HA'ACHIN SHE'CHALKU - brothers who divided [their father's estate]
22) [line 26] HA'MACHAZIK B'NICHSEI HA'GER (NICHSEI HA'GER SHE'MES)
23a) [line 28] NA'AL - [if the one who takes possession of the Nichsei
ha'Ger hung a door and] locked it 24) [line 29] KIDUSHIN D'VEI LEVI - the Tosefta of Kidushin taught by Levi, i.e. his collection of Beraisa'os to Maseches Kidushin
25) [last line] "LECH CHAZEK U'KENI" - "Go, do an act of Chazakah, and
acquire it" (KINYAN CHAZAKAH)
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